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Pubs for board games
I keep a mental spreadsheet of where in London you can actually get a decent surface, a decent pint, and a decent chance nobody tells you to put the game away because 'other people want the table too'. This is that spreadsheet made public. (Rule one, which nobody asked for: a pub is only truly game-friendly if the staff don't hover. You can have the best lighting and the comfiest booth in Zone 3 but if someone's doing the 'are you still playing with that' lap every twenty minutes the whole evening curdles — I have genuinely left a pint unfinished over this. Rule two, equally unsolicited: round counts as a table booking, always tip like it was one.) Most of these are a bus or a sulky walk from Walthamstow, a few require the Overground, none of them require you to own Twilight Imperium, though I will still try to get you to play it.